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Author: Mitesh Patel, George M. Fuller (UCSD)

Title: What are sterile neutrinos good for?

Abstract: Taken at face value, current experimental data indicate the existenceof a new particle, the sterile neutrino, which must be a singlet underthe Standard Model gauge group. Although they are not detectablethrough traditional means, such particles have interesting{\it observable} consequences for particle astrophysics and cosmology.Here we examine these implications and discuss, in particular, therelationship between matter-enhanced active-sterile neutrinotransformation and the synthesis of heavy elements in supernovae.

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, APS DPF'99 proceedings contribution


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